“County, town and village officials were guests of the Board of Education at a dedication week luncheon at the cafeteria of the new school building yesterday noon.

“County Judge Frederick G. Paddock and District Attorney Harold W. Main of Malone were the special guests of the occasion, which was marked by many expressions of approval of the new structure and praise for the Saranac Lake school authorities.

“Elbert E. Bellows Chairman of the Board of Education was toastmaster and a roundtable of toasts followed an excellent luncheon served by the high school misses.

“The Malone contingent generously conceded that Saranac Lake now has an object of civic character that exceeds anything their own community can boast.”

Editorial about low life in the Adirondacks

“Residents of Elizabethtown are beginning to make it quite plain to Essex County officials that they believe that the time has not only come, but is really long past, for a bit of house cleaning at the county seat.

“As a sort of sop [something given as a reward] to the populace a pool room proprietor was arrested and given a fine of $50 for not having a license. But the clamor for more drastic action will not die down.

“It is not only the unlicensed pool room in the village of Elizabethtown but within the village limits are real dives, of the type found in the tenderloin sections of cities, and that such places are conducted in the most brazen manner.

“But Elizabethtown is not the only Adirondack community to be in like straits. There are many others along the bootleg trail. Towns in which ten years ago one might have left a thousand dollars in gold coins on the front porch without the least fear anyone would touch them. Towns that were then as clean and wholesome as the sweet, keen air about them.

“Came then the so-called prohibition law and with it a swarm of bootlegs, hi-jackers, stick-up men, gangsters, dope fiends, prostitutes and other riff-raff, who deserted the dives and slums of the cities to reap of the golden harvest to be had along the bootleg trail.

” People are now blackjacked and robbed in the most approved Gas District fashion, right outside their own homes in the Adirondacks. All sorts of crimes are being committed that ten years ago were unheard of in the mountains.”

Items that would not

make the news today

“Mrs. Frank A. Tebo, of Fort Covington Street, Malone, suffered the fracture of two ribs on her right side when she fell down stairs at her home.”

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“Willford Deloria of AuSable Forks had both great toes broken and both feet jammed when a roll of paper weighing nearly a thousand pounds dropped from a truck upon his feet. It will be many weeks before the injured man will be about. The accident happened at the paper mill of the J. and J. Rogers Company.” [The paper company was owned by the family of that well-known Placidian James Rogers. I wonder if Jim remembers the accident?]

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“At a jury trial, Christopher Hagen of AuSable Forks, was acquitted of the charge of stealing nine sheep from Mrs. Hattie C. Davis, who lives near Jay. The latter asserted the sheep strayed to the Hagen place and were kept by him. The case attracted much attention and was of great interest through the AuSable valley.” [Mr. Hagen probably thought they were just wild sheep who wandered onto his property.]

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“Mrs. J. H. Belden of Ticonderoga suffered a fractured ankle when she fell on the icy steps of a neighbor’s house.”

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[Mike Beglin alert!] “London – United Press – Look out for the high price of diamonds! That’s the warning of Sir David Harris, who controls the great Kimberly mines in South Africa, in a statement here. He said there was every aspect of a ‘diamond war’. He doesn’t explain why.”

Young men of the C of C meet for lunch

“This week’s meeting of the Young Men’s Luncheon Club of the Chamber of Commerce will be held in the town hall tomorrow at 12:10 o’clock, as announced today by Ernest Grubb, [great name for a luncheon host] chairman of the club.

“The speaker of the occasion will be Dr. William A. Howe, chief of the medical inspection bureau of the state department of education, who is on the dedication program at the new school.

“Walter H. Pilcher, the new secretary, will be on hand to meet the new members of the club. Advance reservations are being made as usual at the chamber’s office on Main Street.”

Tupper legion post growing

“Benjamin Churco post of the American Legion at Tupper Lake has leased an entire floor in the Main Street building owned by John Pervonga, to be used as a headquarters for the post members.

“The membership of the post is now one hundred and seven and it is believed that the membership will soon reach one hundred and fifty. The organization is constantly growing in strength and influence.”

Bullet just misses federal

agent in Malone

“Malone has a mystery in the firing of a bullet from a heavy caliber rifle at the window of the United States Commissioner Borno.

“Whoever did the shooting came very close to ringing up a bull’s eye on Federal Agent Henry E. March, standing near the window. The bullet shattered a storm window, tore away a section of sash from the real window and then dropped into the river.

“It is thought that perhaps some of Malone’s numerous bootlegging gentry might have been amusing themselves with a little target practice during the off season.”